C. Avie Lowe

All your adult life, you will feel old.

This kills me—every single time:

“…We who have come back [from concentration camps], by the aid of many lucky chances or miracles - whatever one may choose to call them - we know: the best of us did not return.”

—Victor Frankl

“Sir, I exist!”

The We Do Not Care club is meeting early today.

#MelaniSanders

I just had the disquieting realization that I say “jeepers” unironically.

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I had no idea how much of my adult life would involve hold music.

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C: What was the name of that pizza?

D: Porta.

C: Ah. Right. I knew it sounded like “porno.”

D: They only have two flavors: jumbo sausage and extra spicy.

D: I love you, and I’m glad you’re here with me every day.

C.A: So how come you’re always yelling at me?

D: ‘Cause I’m a sick f****.

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Thank you, @bmcarthur17.bsky.social I just noticed he was missing and emailed BlueSky support. Inviting others to do the same.

No?

C.A.: I wanted to apologize. I know you don’t hear well, and I shouldn’t get frustrated.

D: What are you talking about? Who said I didn’t feel well?

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Four absolutely.

C.A: …She said something I never would have thought of about the potential source of your depression.

D: What, my diet?

C.A: You’re close.

D: My clothes?

Traveling Americans have been posing as Canadians for at least a decade.

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Please help Sandy:

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This.

He sounds mentally ill. Good thing he has a plan for that.

😄

Standup Dom Irera did a bit about this. “Guess who died?”

Sh*t my husband says:

“We’ve become old crones.”

Well, bucko, aging’s changed you more than me.

OK, a package is coming. Thanks for the notification, but how excited am I supposed to be, exactly?

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In Spanish class years ago, we talked about what we liked and didn’t. A Guyanese football player named Arnold said he didn’t like homosexuals! (Happily, most of our classmates seemed appalled.) I said, “Algunos juegan a futbal, Arnoldo.” Thinking of him now.